Ivar's Quotes

#1. He died without cutting his nails, she said accusingly, as if I was responsible for that ill luck, and it was bad fortune indeed because now the grim things of the underworld would use Ivar's nails to build the ship that would bring chaos at the world's end.

Bernard Cornwell

#2. I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

Ivar Giaever

#3. It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.

Stephenie Meyer

#4. If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

Jerry Vlasak

#5. I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

Ivar Giaever

#6. If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Ivar Giaever

#7. One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

Jane Smiley

#8. I think we're all connected, everyone on earth.

Nicola Yoon

#9. Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

#10. It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

Tom Waits

#11. Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.

Ivar Giaever

#12. If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

Ivar Giaever

#13. If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Ivar Giaever

#14. The greatest news that I could ever say is that Jesus is Lord and Savior of my life. He is my friend. He is with me wherever I go. I'm so delighted to continue to grow in my relationship to Jesus.

Nick Vujicic

#15. There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

Ivar Giaever

#16. The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other.

Marty Rubin

#17. While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Ivar Giaever

#18. There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

Ivar Giaever

#19. To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.

Ivar Giaever

#20. If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

Ole Ivar Lovaas

#21. 'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

Ivar Giaever

#22. Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that "in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis".

Mark Steyn

#23. Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

Adolf Ivar Arwidsson

#24. All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

Lynn Shelton

#25. Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Ivar Giaever

#26. Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ivar Giaever

#27. When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ivar Giaever

#28. Our century is a brutal thinker.

Pierre-Jean De Beranger

#29. I am a skeptic ... Global warming has become a new religion.

Ivar Giaever

#30. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

Ivar Giaever